Established 1899
Here's The Point.
One point well driven home is
worth a dozen half-hearted state
ments. We are EXCLUSIVELY
in the SHOE business. Naturally
with only ONE line of gcods to
look after we can give that line un
divided attention and with THIR
TY years experience can secure the
very best goods for our trade. The
longer we are in business the more
we learn about shoes. When you
buy shoes of us you get the benefit
of our knowledge and experience.
Every pair of shoes entering our
stock MUST be durable, comfort
able and stylish. Special attention
is called to our stock of "Queen
Quality" goods for ladies. These
have stood the test and there are no
others in their class. Our Fall and
Winter stock is in, and we invite
an inspection.
Link's Shoe Store.
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O I have just returded from the markets, where I have personal- O
ft ly selected the finest line of Ladies Ready to Wear goods ever ft
fS offered in the country. I have neither spared time or money in
X assembling for our ladies the newest and best in Suits, Coats, X
JC Skirrs and Waists and every other article used or worn by Ladies,
V Wait lor the announcement of our first great Opening of Ready V/
O to Wear goods. Just arrived the finest line of Ladies Princess O
ft Suits, Silk and Mesaline waist, silk and Heatherbloom petticoats ft
Q ever displayed in Hickory. Respectfully, rS
X McCoy iVloretz. X
FWTTQ]BES|
Have you a good watch? If
1 not, you need one, and I am in
p a position to serve you in the
best possible manner. Itf
| MY STOCK IS LARGE, |
and all the reliable makes and
grades are always on hand at
|j the lowest prices; 7to 24 jewel
B movements, plain nickel to sol
id gold cases.
| QEO. E. BISANAR, f
jj| Jewele and Optician Watch Inspector Southern Ry. ||
FHE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C..THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1909.
BIG GOLD MINING.
Operations on a Large Scale
in Burke County.
(Special Correspondence.)
Brindletown, N. C., Aug. 25,
1909. —Brindletown people are
very much pleased at the way
matters are shaping themselves
in mining ways and look forward
to a period of prosperity. Messrs.
Allen and Little have sub leased
a large section of the Mills prop
erty located on Pilot mountain to
a company of Pittsburg people
who have formed the Pilot Moun
tain Mining Co., and are already
installing the necessary machine
ry. When their plant is com
pleted they will have a 180
H. P. battery of boilers, a
140 H. P. engine, hydraulic lifts
and a centrifugal pump. Thev
will take water from Muddy
Creek and use hydraulic power
for getting out the gold, ar>d the
pump they will use is powerful
enough to put a stream of water
up over the top of Pilot moun
tain. The hydraulic lift will be
used for putting the tailings into
reservoirs or hollows.on the Mills
property, and thus" Seep them
out of Muddy Creek. They will
employ forty hands and work
night and day in three shifts
of eight hours each.
Allen and Little will soon be
gin work on the Denton mine,
and will put in a boiler and pump
for operating the hydraulic
stream and centrifugal pump for
pumping tailings into suitable
places in order to keep them out
of Muddy Creek.
W. H. Allen personally is be
ginning mining just back of
Walker's store. He will bring
water through 1,000 feet of pip
ing under a head of 65 feet for
hydraulic mining, and use the 65
H. P. boiler, 60 H. P. en
gine and 60 H. P. pump that
he has used heretofore for min
ing purposes for pumping tail
ings into reservoirs and keeping
them out of the streams.
From now on all the mining
companies operating in Brindle
town will keeping the tailing out
of the streams as they have
found by experience that bv
sending tailings down a stream
they block themselves and are
unable to mine as deep as they
want to. They will also, as far
as possible, by means of brush
dams and other ways filter the
water so that when it escapes
into the streams it will be muddy
colored only. The land owners
along Silver Creek, becoming
alarmed at the rise of a foot in
the bottom of Silver Creek and
laying this all to the mining car
ried on in Brindletown, and not
tiking into account the effects of
the rains for the past two years,
and having been beaten in their
efforts to have the Legislature
delare the running tailings into
streams a misdemeanor, have
now taken the macter into courts,
and through T. Y. Biggerstaff,
of McDowell county, have alleg
ed damages and procured a tem
porary injunction which will soon
be served on the defendants.
They have made Allen and Lit
tle, both individually and as part
ners, defendants and have join
ed with them as many others as
they could find, including some
of the Pittsburg people who are
not on Silver Creek at all. Law
suits are expensive any way you
put it, and whether the farmers
win or lose, they will have a
heavy bill to pay, and they might
better use that money in clearing
some of the logs and sunken
scows out of the creek,and so in
creasing its current. But if they
want the fun of a law suit they
can have it, as this is a free
country. Messrs. Allen and Lit
tle are not losing any sleep over
the matter, although they prefer
peace to law suits ; especially in
view of the expense they are
going to from now on to keep the
Can You Pronounce ?
There lived a man in Mexico,
Who all his life did battle
To rightly spell such easy words
As Nahautlacatl.
He wrote the names of all the towns—
It took of ink a bottle,
But could not spell Tenochtillan,
Nor plain Tlacaecotl.
He went to spelling school each day,
And, though a man of mettle.
He could not conquer Topiltzin,
Nor Huitzilopoehctl.
He dwalt some time in Yucatan,
And there, at Tzompantilli,
He learned to spell one little word;
'Twas Ziuhonolpilli
The joy of spelling just one word
Did all his mind unsettle;
But, spelling still, he failed at last
On Popocatepetl.
tailings out of the streams.
Regarding the dredging and
muddying of Silver Creeks,
Messrs- Allen and Little have
secured options on the necessary
land foj from seven to nine miles
along each creek, and are now
waiting for the New York peo
ple to take up the option they
have on this proposition. Their
option has not long to run, and it
will not effect the matter inju
riously if they fail to complete
the matter as the Pittsburg peo
ple will take up the matter and
carry it through if the New York
crowd fall down and allow their
option to lapse. It would be a
good thing for land owners on
those two streams if this deal is
put through as they will not only
receive a very good price for
their lands, but will also have
the privilege of furnishing at
least 12,000 cords of wood
a year to run the dredges by, in
addition to other stores. All in
all those mining matters stand to
put a good many dollars into
the pockets of Burke county
men in the next few years.
Optimist.
Drunkenness.
No good reason can be given
to regret that we have no lawful
inducement to drunkenness now
in our part of the land.
A doctor whose business it was
recently studied conditions among
the children of the city of New
York. He declared that the
greatest sufferers because of
drunkenness are the children of
drinking parents. Of these there
are very many. Women as well
men drink, which increase the
evil. Seventy-one per cent of the
children of drinking parents are
afflicted with functional, organic
disorders, which are inherited
from their parents. This means
that children of besotted parents
usually suffer degeneracy and
mental deficiency, with damage
in body, mind and estate.
Here, as in New York, we are
morally, physically and indus
trially lower than we might be
because of strong drink, and also
because o± tobacco, opium, co
caine and other drugs. In actual
results the abuses of these things
are worse than war and pesti
lence. Prohibition of them all is
a right, for it is the right of
a people, of a state, to prohibit
for self preservation. There is
no right to personal liberty when
a person, by abuse of that liber
ty, harms another person or so
ciety. If the rotting potato be
separated from the rest the loss
will be less. Let each one of us
who suffers from an appetite for
one of these destructive things
remember what is better, "If
thy right eye offend thee, pluck
it out."
People who feel sure of their
ability usually make the least
display of it.
The more money a woman has
the more red hair she can have
without people calling it by that
name.
COTTON IN THIS STATE.
How the Output of the Pro
duce Could be Doubled.
There are 14 counties in North
Carolina tfiat raise over 15,000
bales of cotton, eight that raise
10,000 to 15,000 bales, 15 that
raise 5,000 to 10,000 bales, and
31 that raise less than 5,000 bales.
The biggest cotton raising coun
ties are Cleveland, Mecklenburg,
Union, Anson, Scotland, Robe
son, Wake, Johnston, Wayne.
Wilson, Nash, Halifax, Edge
combe and Pitt. Robeson is the
champion producer, as it raised
last year 51,445 bales, against
34,638 for Johnston, the second
largest producer. Mecklenburg is
third, with 32,415. Area compar
ed, however, the little county of
Scotland beats the State. On
the map it looks like a mere
township, _ yet last year it raised
25,995 bales. Gaston, the great
est cotton mill county in the
State, lying between Cleveland
and Mecklenburg, two over-15,-
000-bale counties, raised only
12,829 bales. Catawba is an un
der-10,000-bale county, but the
farmers there pay more atten
tion to wheat and sweet potatoes
than they do to cotton. That the
cotton area of North Carolina is
not nearly developed is evidenced
by the fact that less than 5,000
bales are rais,ed in Bladen, Col
umbus and Pender, three of the
finest cotton counties in the State
and each capable of producing
from 30,000 to 40,000 bales.
Richmond, Cumberland and
Sampson could easily be brought
into the 35,000-bale class, while
Rowan, Cabarrus and Stanley
could be brought up to 20,000 or
25,000. The State in 1908 pro
duced 683,628, counting round as
half-bales against 749,712 bales
in 1904. This State could easily
grow over a million bales should
the necessity for it arise. —Char
lotte Chronicle.
Your Teacher Can Teach
Agriculture.
"One of the greatest obstacles
to agricultural teaching in our
country schools is the diffidence
of the teacher, who because she
has not herself been taught ag
riculture, thinks that she cannot
teach it to others. She can teach
agriculture successfully, as I have
seen demonstrated in many in
stances; and I believe that I have
frequently led them to do so in
my teachers' institute and sum
mer school work, by calling their
attention to the fact that to teach
some agriculture, they need not
know all agriculture, and that if
they can teach to their pupils a
few facts or principles,that they
do not already know, that it mat
ters not if the pupil knows a few
kinks and turns about handling a
plow or a mule that the teacher
does not know.
"I wonder, as a matter of fact,
if our teachers who have consci
entiously and thinkingly studied
a good text-book, do not know as
large a per cent of the knowable,
teachable, agriculture as that
same teacher knows of the know
able, teachable history which she
thinks herself amply able to
teach?"— Dr. F. L. Stevens, in
Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer.
Snake Found in an Apple.
We have heard it stated that
it is not an uncommon thing to
find snakes taking refuge in a
cabbage head. Stories are related
of persons who upon cutting them
found a small green snake coiled
up within. Oar townsman, Mr.
T. H. Pegram furnishes the facts
for a new chapter to the volume
of snake stories. The other day
there was picked up an apple on
his premises, in which there was
a small round hole as if made by
a worm. Upon cutting the ap
ple there was a green snake
about 8-inches long, cozily coiled
within the apple. The snake is
of an exceedingly poisonous va
riety and the fact that the rep
tile is seeking a home in the ap
ple makes it necessary that care
be exercised in handling apples.
—Mcoresville Enterprise.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
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